Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chanting demonstrators set up an obstructive picket line outside the five entrances to 1-Lab 5 and its parking lot gates shortly after 7 a. m. Pickets marched in pairs, arms linked, in a rapidly moving circle outside each entrance...
...demonstrators were divided into three aflinity groups. The largest-including M. I. T.'s Rosa Luxemburg SDS and the 32 Weathermen-were to picket the main entrance, and two smaller groups to block the parking lot gates...
Three research workers in the I-Labs attempted to break through the picket lines individually around 7:45 a. m. but were jostled and shoved back by the demonstrators. One had to be pulled back by a friend and retreated across Albany St. to stand with other employees waiting for police to clear the pickets...
Apples, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and hot dogs were distributed free, and some students went out to recruit more for this morning's picket line...
...toward changing attitudes rather than changing official policies produces a strong proclivity toward ever greater levels of violence. To wrench emotions, an action must be dramatic; to be dramatic, it must be unique; to be unique in America in 1969 it is increasingly necessary to be violent. A student picket line in 1960 was an event with some emotional impact; a picket line in 1969 is hardly likely to prompt even intellectual curiosity. Occupying a building is almost passe. Peaceful protests may still be effective in changing government practices but they do not have a strong psychological impact. Violence...